The master plan meeting was held in Kilinochchi premises on 15th May 2016. Vice Chancellor, Council Members, Deans of all three Faculties (Agriculture, Engineering and Technology), Maintenance Engineer, Deputy Registrar Kilinochchi premises, Assistant Registrars of the Faculties of Agriculture and Engineering attended. The meeting was organized to discuss the overall placement of each sections within the 568 acres of land of the Kilinochchi premises.
University Business Linkage consultant from Germany, Mr. Peter Sommers, delivered a session at Kilinochchi on 13th May 2016. The session was organized for students as well as project supervisors (staff). Primary discussion was on “Career Prospects and Employment Opportunities through Business Linkages”. After this session, a short discussion was held to finalize the details on “Best practice oriented thesis award”. This discussion was made regarding the Faculty of Engineering, since the Faculty has students only up to third year and therefore a separate set of criteria for this year’s competition was discussed. Continue reading
Staff of the Faculty of Engineering together with the volunteers (professors from foreign Universities) developed the Strategic plan of the Faculty of Engineering. This was planned from December 2013 and improved every year and finally it was fine-tuned with more detail steps during the period of April-May 2016. Here, the plan from 2013 till 2016 and its achievements, were studied critically. Continue reading
The Civil and Mechanical Engineering students visited Water and wastewater treatment plants in Colombo (Ambatale) and Batticcaloa. It was organized from 3rd till 6th May 2016 by the subject coordinator, Dr. Daniel Subramaniam. Students of 2013/E batch who are specializing in the fields of Civil Engineering are following a core module on Water and Wastewater Treatment (CE5031) for the fifth semester of their curriculum at present. This course unit aims to provide a detailed study and designing on water and wastewater treatment systems together. The curriculum also includes 24 hours of field visits and laboratory, while assessments are also connected to these sessions. Continue reading
Prof. Harsha K. Chelliah visited us on 27th April 2016. He took part in discussions with the head of the department and mechanical engineering lecturers. The discussions included curriculum development, project initiations and post graduate opportunities for young lecturers. He helped us to develop a few modules in mechanical engineering curriculum.Continue reading
Academic Development and Planning Committee (ADPC) invited Prof. S. Ilanko from University of Waikato, New Zealand to conduct a workshop on Outcome Based Education (OBE) on 25th April 2016 (Monday) from 9:00 am – 12:00 pm. The title of the session was ‘Outcome Based Education: An Overview and Documentation’. Prof. Ilanko has a vast experience in working accreditation committee backed in New Zealand. He also involved in preparing documents for accreditation. He kindly agreed to share his insights in OBE.Continue reading
University of Jaffna has altogether 10 faculties operating in importantly three different places such as Jaffna, Vavuniya and Kilinochchi. It is a challenge for the administration to operate with minimum number of human resources. Therefore the finance branch conducted a workshop on the newly developed structure on delegation of powers for efficient operations. This was held on 25th April 2016. All the administrative staff including deans and head of the departments participated in this workshop.
Vice Chancellors and Deans of the Universities in Sri Lanka, attended the workshop organized by the UGC on 22nd April 2016. This consultative workshop was on “Preventing Ragging and Sexual and Gender-based Violence in Universities” and it was held at the Galadari Hotel. This was the second in a series of initiatives workshops organized by the UGC during the year 2016. Continue reading
Invitation for Bids – Supply of Civil, Computer Engineering, IT Equipment and Laboratory Furniture: The bid has been called on 20th April 2016 to supply equipment for the Department of Civil Engineering, Department of Computer Engineering and IT Equipment and Laboratory furniture. Both Heads of the Departments, Lecturers and Technical Officers were working very hard as excellent team to order the best standard equipment for the experiments to be conducted at the Faculty. Continue reading
Professor Kanes K Rajah, who is the Royal Agricultural University Chair in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, visited the Faculty of Engineering on 19th April 2016. Discussion with him by the Faculty staff, gave directions with Entrepreneurships. It was wonderful and very interesting discussions on how the Universities can be benefitted by giving their best services to the country. Continue reading